Legal and Privacy Issues of Social Media
25 April 2012 (14-18h30)
Location: Golden Tulip Brussels Airport (Diegem)
Presented in English by
Price: 420 EUR (excl. 21% VAT)
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Learning Objectives
Why should you attend this seminar ?
Social networks and services like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr, Youtube, Google+, Foursquare, iTunes, blogs, ... are part of our personal and business life. We use these social media to stay informed about what friends and "acquaintances" do and what they are interested in, or to send out information about our own private life, our friends or our work. These networks are still growing enormously in number of users, and also in popularity.
As a result, these social networks know a lot about us, our interests, our contacts, ... but we do not know exactly what they know, and certainly not what they do with this data. The only thing we can somewhat rely on to understand their intentions, are the "terms of agreement" when opening an account (but who reads this?), and the privacy policies that each service needs to put on its web site (but who knows those ?).
Also, more and more companies are using these networks, e.g. for HR purposes (LinkedIn contains a wealth of information for job agencies and headhunters), advertising (Google and Facebook put advertising on their page that best matches your profile and your current interest), promotion (many companies have now started a Facebook Fan Page), mobile smartphone applications, ... In the near future we may also expect many more applications like location-based services, augmented reality, contactless payment via smartphone, all sorts of cloud services, etc.
Digital has become "The New Normal", new devices get introduced first in the consumer market before they concquer the enterprise ("consumerisation of IT") and there is clear trend to more flexible working, both in time and place ("Het Nieuwe Werken"). Every knowledge worker has to deal with digital real-time communication, more and more via social networks, and there is a thin, blurry line between work and private time. It is clear that legislation has to adapt to these new opportunities and challenges of using mobile devices, working at home or via hotspots, communicating digitally via email or social networks. Our digital identity is becoming more and more important, and our privacy is at risk.
To help you navigate the legislation related to social networks and privacy, but also to explain the legal risks, we developed an afternoon seminar with Patrick Van Eecke (DLA Piper). Patrick is a world-renowned lawyer with tremendous experience who will not shy away from your questions about social media... On the contrary: the more concrete and relevant questions we can answer the better.
The following questions will be addressed and discussed on the basis of relevant legislation and case law (both current and future Belgian, European and American law):
- Is the employer liable for tweets from employees ?
- Contracting through the chat box, legally valid ?
- Are managers of social media platforms responsible for the content on their platform ?
- What will be the impact of the new draft European privacy law on social media ?
- Viral marketing using social media: a legal risk ?
- Trade secrets revealed on twitter, can this be controlled by the employer ?
- Use of social media to screen (prospective) employees, allowed ?
- Is Facebook watching you ? How to handle the terms of agreement of social media ?
- Fake fan pages, fake tweet accounts, how to act against abuse of brands and company names on social media ?
- What is the advantage of social media policies ?
Who should attend this seminar ?
- Everyone who is working with personal data and personal information
- Anyone who has to do with new services around social networks like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, blogging, ...
- Those involved in decisions about mobile applications (smartphones, tablets, ...) who want to know more about the security risks and privacy issues of such applications
- Anyone who wants to know how trends such as cloudhosting, always-on, location-aware apps, ... provide new challenges for legislators.
- Security officers who need to translate the legislation on privacy and social networks into internal policies
Do not hesitate to send your questions on the subject beforehand to seminars@itworks.be.
Full Programme
13.30h-14.00hRegistration with coffee/tea and croissants
14.00h-18.15hLegal and Privacy Issues of Social Media
The following questions will be addressed and discussed on the basis of relevant legislation and case law (both current and future Belgian, European and American law):
- Is the employer liable for tweets from employees ?
- Contracting through the chat box, legally valid ?
- Are managers of social media platforms responsible for the content on their platform ?
- What will be the impact of the new draft European privacy law on social media ?
- Viral marketing using social media: a legal risk ?
- Trade secrets revealed on twitter, can this be controlled by the employer ?
- Use of social media to screen (prospective) employees, allowed ?
- Is Facebook watching you ? How to handle the terms of agreement of social media ?
- Fake fan pages, fake tweet accounts, how to act against abuse of brands and company names on social media ?
- What is the advantage of social media policies ?
We finish with a number of best practices and good advice to limit the legal risks in the use of social networks.
Speakers
Patrick Van Eecke, Lic.Iur., LL.M., is a lawyer and leads the e-business department of the international law firm DLA Piper, which has 4200 lawyers in 30 countries and more than 60 offices.
Patrick Van Eecke is recommended by the Legal 500 and the European Legal Experts as one of the top lawyers in ICT law in Belgium. He is ranked as 1st Belgian lawyer in the "Guide to the World's Leading Technology, Media & Telecommunications Lawyers" and is also in the world's Top 20.
In 2000-2001, Patrick was a research fellow at the Law School of Stanford University, California, and he wrote his PhD on the legal aspects of the digital signature. He is extensively involved in various research and consulting projects for the European Commission and several national governments. Until June 1999, he was advisor to the Minister of Justice on the legal aspects of the information society and he was involved in the implementation of electronic signature-related legislation, computer criminality, and eavesdropping on electronic communication.
Patrick Van Eecke is the author of several legal articles and books on computer crime, electronic signatures, electronic contracting and privacy. Patrick is editor of the Belgian Revue de Droit Commercial (Larcier), the international Journal of Internet Law (Kluwer), the Belgian-Dutch Computerrecht (Kluwer) and the British Computer Law and Security Review (Elsevier). His most recent book "Recht & elektronische handel" was published by Larcier.
Patrick is a regular speaker at national and international conferences, he is often asked to comment on Internet law-related issues in national and international press, e.g. very recently in The Guardian on the Safe Harbour Agreement. He is also a columnist in the Belgian quality newspaper De Standaard about law and e-business.
Patrick is a professor at the University of Antwerp, teaching European Information and Communications Law. He is also a guest lecturer on Internet law at various universities, such as Solvay Business Institute, Kings College London and Queen Mary University of London (LL.M. Information Technology Law).
Patrick is member of the Brussels bar (since 1994) and is an associate member of the American Bar Association.
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